Concrete wall construction



W. C. BUCKHOUT.

CONCRETE WALL CONSTRUCTION.

APPLICATION FILED NOV=1, 1919.

Patented Feb. 8, 1921.

A TTOR/VEVS WILLIAM CORNELL BUGKHO U'I, OF YONKERS, NEW YORK.

CONCRETE vWALL CONSTRUCTION.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 8, 1921.,

Application fil ed November 1, 1919. SerialNo. 335,121.

T 0 all to ham it may concem Be it known that I, VILLIAM C. BUCK- I-IOU'1,.a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Yonkers,in the county of Vestchester and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Concrete 'Wall Construction, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in concrete'wall constructions, an object of the invention being to provide a wall in which a minimum of concrete is employed and which will be quickly dried out by reason of the air circulation therethrough.

A further object is to provide a concrete wall having an interior drainage and ventilating system.

A further object is to provide a wall which can be constructed without forms of any kind and which will result in great economy over Walls such as heretofore made.

With these and other objects in view'the invention consists in certain novel features otconstruction, and combinations and arrangements of parts, as will be more fully hereinafter described and pointed out in the claims. 1

In the accompanying drawings- Figure 1- is a view mainly in vertical transverse section, but partly in end elevation;

Fig. 2 is a view in section on the staggered line 22 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a view in cross-sectionillustrating a vertical assemblage of cylinders and tubes; and

Fig. l is a perspective view of one of the vertical tubes.

in constructing my improved wall 1 use outside concrete slabs l which may be of any desired length and width and which have tongue and groove connections at their horizontal meeting edges, as shown at 2. These slabs are also formed with recesses 33 to receive the downwardly bent ends of horizontally positioned reinforcing bars 5. lhest bars are preferably of metal and not only opc'nte to connect the slabs l, b t also serve as reinforcements the structure. teen the. parallel slabs l 1. 5) mice a plurality of porous tubes coi tilting a continuous air chamber which now he d in the loi or portion of t ny o horizontal D1 which en ends longitu-tlin.

and on this pipe 6 a series of vertical tubes are coupled. These tubes 7 have tongues 8 forced laterally from their ends leaving recesses S which, when the tubes 7 are proectediuto the pipe 6, insure a free passage of moisture, yet provide a firm coupling be tweenthe pipes. On the upper ends of the vertical tubes .7 transversely projecting cylinders 9 are coupled. These cylinders 9 have central openings receiving the ends of the tubes 7 and they extend close to the inner faces of the slabs 1 and have closed ends 9'.

By reference particularly to Fig. 2, it will be noted that a large number of these transverse cylinders 9 are employed and have a staggered arrangement and all of the cylinders 9 are connected by the vertical tubes 7 and all of the vertical series or cylinders and tubes communicate with the lower pipe 6 and with a similar horizontal pipe 10 located in the upper portion of the wall.

The pipes 6 and 10, tubes 7 and the cylinders 9 are of porous material and it may use cardboard as a material for constructing these parts, but, of course, do not liiiiit myself to such material as other porous material might be employed.

In constructing the wall the slabs l, 1, are positioned, the lower pipe 6 is located centrally between-them and the concrete filling 11 is located between the slabs around the pipe and as the wall increases in height, the vertical tubes '4" and cylinders 9 are assembled.

fi hile l use the term concrete, it is obvious that this term is used in its broadest sense to include any cement or composition which be utilized for the purpose and the concrete is supplied in a thin or liquid form so that it completely fills in around. the tubes, pipes and cylinders, and said tubes pipes and cylinders, by reason their porous nature, take up the moisture of the concrete by capillary attraction and allow out through the sys air can thehoncrete W Wit be cheaply constructed by reason of the economy of cement or concrete used and because all Wooden forms or other forms are dispensed With as the concrete slabs each act as forms and constitute a part of the finished Wall. Furthermore, a Wall of tlns kind can be constructed by anyone of average intelligence, notrequiring skilled labor, a

and the pipes, tubes and cylinders can be cheaply furnished and will be vastly cheaper than the amount of concrete which they displace. If desired, suitable screens 12 may be located at the ends of the pipes 6 and 10 to prevent the entrance of mice or other animals.

It is obvious that my'improved wall may be utilized in connection with anydesired arrangement of columns and may be joined tion, and hence I do not limit myself to the precise detailsset forth, but consider myself at liberty to make such changes and altera tions as fairly fall Within the spirit and scope of the appended claims.

I claim: 1. At concrete Wall construction comprising two parallel series of concrete slabs, reinforcing bars connecting the slabs, a concrete filler between said series of slabs, a pl'urality of connected hollow cylinders of porous material embedded in said filler, said cylinders having closed ends, vertical tubes connecting the cylinders, horizontal pipes communicating with said vertical tubes, and screens positioned across the ends of said horizontal pipes.

2. A concrete wall, comprising transversely positioned cylinders embedded in the concrete ot the wall, said cylinders having closed ends and having openings'in their central portions, vertical tubes, laterally projecting tongues bent from the tubes forming shoulders, said tubes positioned in the openings of the cylinders with their recessed ends projecting into the cylinders,

and said cylinders and tubes constructed of porous materlal.

3. A concrete wall, comprising parallel slabs, said slabs having tongue and groove connections and having recesses therein, transversely positioned bars located in said recesses, transversely positioned cylinders between the slabs, longitudinal pipes in the upper and lower portions of the wall between the slabs, vertical tubes connecting the cylinders and the pipes. and a filling of concrete between the slabs and around the pipes, tubes and cylinders.

WILLIAM CORNELL BUCKHOUT 

